30. “I have struck your children in vain.They received no correction.Your own sword has devoured your prophets,like a destroying lion.
31. Generation, consider the Lord’s word.Have I been a wilderness to Israel?Or a land of thick darkness?Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose.We will come to you no more?’
32. “Can a virgin forget her ornaments,or a bride her attire?Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
33. How well you prepare your way to seek love!Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
34. Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts.You didn’t find them breaking in;but it is because of all these things.
35. “Yet you said, ‘I am innocent.Surely his anger has turned away from me.’“Behold, I will judge you,because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
36. Why do you go about so much to change your ways?You will be ashamed of Egypt also,as you were ashamed of Assyria.